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Catalog [type specimen book, brown cover]

by: Typefounders of Chicago, subsidiary of Castcraft

Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Topics: typecasting, typefounding, type specimens, typography

Publisher: digital reprint by www.CircuitousRoot.com

Collection: typecatalogs; catalogs; additional_collections

Contributor: Dr. David M. MacMillan

Language: English

A type specimen book of Typefounders of Chicago (a subsidiary of Castcraft). No date, but after 1943 (city zone codes) and before 1963 (no ZIP code); probably before 1959 (their acquisition of Neon Type). Brown cover showing a drawing of a matrix carrier and holder assembly for a Thompson Type Caster. Also contains information on their sorts and line service. Also contains type imported by Amsterdam Continental.

Notes

600dpi RGB and greyscale. Thanks are due to Jenny Addison, Proprietor of Lock and Key Press, for making this material available.

Addeddate: 2011-02-08 13:17:47

Identifier: TypefoundersOfChicagoCatalogBrownCover

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t2k659g12

Location: USA

Ocr: ABBYY FineReader 8.0

Ppi: 600

Rights: This book was published in the US without copyright notice at a time when such notice was required to secure copyright. It therefore passed into the public domain upon initial publication. This digital reprint remains in the public domain.